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1. Comments are still disabled though I am thinking of enabling them again.

2. There are now several extra pages - Poetry Index, Travel, Education, Childish Things - accessible at the top of the page. They index entires before October 2013.

3. I will, in the next few weeks, be adding new pages with other indexes.

Monday, 26 March 2012

Are They Insane?

Sorry.This post is a rant, albeit a fairly short one. Feel free to skip itand come back tomorrow.I use gmail and anyone who also uses gmail will surely sympathise. Iknow that Google's upgrades always seem to make things worse but therecent mandatory "upgrades" to gmail are on a whole new level ofbizarre unusability.First of all I was forced to switch from an interface that I wasperfectly happy with.

Then there was the bug that meant that while ALL of the textdescriptions of the buttons had gone the new icons didn't show soevery button showed as a blank square over which I needed to hover tofind out what it did.

With that fixed, at least to the extent where I have icons rather thenmy preferred text, the true genius of the upgrade became apparent.Trying to forward an email I tried to find the way to get my list ofaddresses to choose from. After fifteen fruitless minutes ofsearching, someone helped me find it but then I could only create anew email rather than put in the forwarding addresses for the requiredpeople. I had to cut and paste every individual address to do it.

Still, clumsy and awkward but doable.

Gets better though.

Having done that I decided to reply in the thread to the originalpost, composed my reply and sent it.Where did it go?Well it wasn't to the original sender.It was to the people I had forwarded the post to. It seems that I needto open the specific post within the thread and reply to that ratherthan to the thread itself.

Google, you have outdone yourselves. The new interface is the mostcounter-intuitive, user-unfriendly piece of software I have seen inmany a long year. And I worked in IT for twenty years and thought I'dseen it all.

I am seriously considering switching back to Hotmail which I left years ago.Nice job!